Appointment of new senior executives at Nobia in 2010

The President of Nobia, Preben Bager, intends to retire in 2010 after
more than 20 years of service at the company, holding such positions
as Business Unit Manager HTH and Senior Vice President UK before
becoming CEO in 2008.

"We are in the midst of a comprehensive, long-term period of change
that will considerably increase Nobia's competitiveness. I will
continue to lead this work with undiminished enthusiasm until a new
President has been appointed and I have assisted him or her during
the hand-over phase," comments Preben Bager.

Mikael Norman has been appointed CFO of Nobia. He succeeds Gun
Nilsson. Mikael Norman is 51 years of age and has had a long career
at the Electrolux Group. His most recent position was as Vice
President and Group Controller. The date of his commencement will be
confirmed shortly.

Jonas Hård has been appointed to the new position of Chief
Information Officer, CIO, and will be responsible for the development
of shared IT support for the entire Group.  Jonas Hård is 38 years of
age and joins Nobia from V&S Vin & Sprit Group. He has also worked as
Head of IT at Electrolux. He will take office in April.


Nobia AB
9 December 2009


For further information, contact:

  * Preben Bager, President and CEO
  * Hans Larsson, Board Chairman
  * Ingrid Yllmark, IRO

Telephone +46 8 440 1600 or +46 708 65 59 00.


Strong kitchen brands
Magnet in the UK, HTH in the Nordic countries, Hygena in France and
Poggenpohl globally are some of the kitchen brands in the Nobia
Group. Nobia develops and sells complete kitchen solutions and
generates value by utilising economies of scale. The Group has
approximately 8,000 employees and net sales of about SEK 16 billion.
The Nobia share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm
under the short name NOBI. For more information visit www.nobia.com.